“It was Sunday, and Mumma had gone next door with Lena and the little ones.” This long novel comes from Patrick White, Australia’s sole Nobel Prize winner, and it was more or less the last book he wrote before winning the award, which probably means it played a role in the win. The book is a portrayal of the life of Hurtle Duffield, who becomes a famous artist over the course of the novel, and while it sometimes is about his art and his way […]